{"id":1813,"date":"2024-07-28T23:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2024-07-28T23:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T23:38:49","slug":"pressure-compounding-or-reteau-staging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/pressure-compounding-or-reteau-staging\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Compounding or Reteau Staging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"para-100\">Pressure compounding is splitting of whole pressure drop of steam from steam chest pressure to condenser pressure into series of small pressure drops across several stages of impulse turbine. The whole pressure drops occur in series of nozzles and there is no pressure drop in fixed blades as shown in\u00a0Figure 5.11.\u00a0The kinetic energy of steam increases in nozzles at the expense of the pressure drops and it is absorbed by the blades in producing torque on the shaft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"para-101\">The pressure compounding of turbine is shown in\u00a0Figure 5.11a\u00a0and pressure\u2013velocity diagram in\u00a0Figure 5.11b.\u00a0The enthalpy drop in one stage is equal to total enthalpy drop divided by number of stages as shown in\u00a0Figure 5.11c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learning.oreilly.com\/api\/v2\/epubs\/urn:orm:book:9789332524415\/files\/images\/page116.png\" alt=\"Figure 5.11\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"para-104\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure compounding is splitting of whole pressure drop of steam from steam chest pressure to condenser pressure into series of small pressure drops across several stages of impulse turbine. The whole pressure drops occur in series of nozzles and there is no pressure drop in fixed blades as shown in\u00a0Figure 5.11.\u00a0The kinetic energy of steam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steam-engine-steam-and-gas-turbines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Rateau_turbine_pressure_-_velocity_diagram_Heat_Engines_1913-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}